Before exporting software to Brazil, verify your software registration in your country first.
Brazil needs to import a lot of technology, Our country has a lot of good workers, including very good startups companies that create some interesting software.
As you know, software is an intellectual property that if is registered in a country signatory of the Berne Convention (1886), it is not necessary to register in the other 174 countries of the Berne Convention.
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1- Software registration in Brazil
If you need to register software in Brazil, contact me! Don’t leave your software without registration in Brazil as in other countries. Software is an active intellectual property very serious, and important to a company.
This process is fast and efficient. Brazil is a member of The Berne Convention, so your registration will be valid in all countries members.
2- Register your trademark before exporting to Brazil too
Oh! Please, don’t forget to register your trademark before exporting to Brazil, because trademarks are only valid in the country you registered it.
In Brazil, I work with trademarks too. (If you need to contact me, send an email to contato@anapaulapaixaomartins.com.br.
The process to apply to register a trademark in Brazil is done in INPI (Brazilian official registration of industrial property).
If you export your software to Brazil without registering its trademark here, you will probably lose to a third person interested in your trademark.
We have a famous principle in the whole world that says the trademark is valid only in the country where it is registered.
3- Don’t forget to do a sales international contract of your software
You need to do a contract before exporting to Brazil. You can’t export software without a contract because you sell with the software programs, corrective maintenance and guarantees.
You need a contract between you and the Brazilian buyer to establish duties and obligations of the parties.
5- Conclusion
Before exporting software to Brazil, register first its trademark and its software.
Don’t take risks because you can lose both of them in Brazil.